I'm Here to Get My Baby out of Jail

Song I'm Here to Get My Baby out of Jail
Artist The Everly Brothers
Album Very Best of the Cadence Era

Lyrics

[00:00.89] I'm not in your town to stay
[00:06.28] Said a lady old and gray
[00:10.59] To the warden of the penitentiary
[00:16.67] I'm not in your town to stay
[00:21.78] And I'll soon be on my way
[00:26.11] I'm just here to get
[00:28.49] My baby out of jail
[00:31.82] Oh, warden, I'm just here
[00:34.73] To get my baby out of jail
[00:39.83] I tried to raise my baby right
[00:44.66] I have prayed both day and night
[00:48.44] That he wouldn't follow
[00:51.51] The footsteps of his dad
[00:55.27] I have searched both far and wide
[00:59.61] And I feared that he had died
[01:03.67] But at last I've found
[01:06.08] My baby here in jail
[01:09.61] Oh, warden, at last
[01:13.00] I've found my baby here in jail
[01:17.83] It was just five years today
[01:22.52] When his daddy passed away
[01:25.91] He was found beneath
[01:28.83] The snow, so cold and white
[01:33.28] Twas then I vowed to take his ring
[01:36.82] And his gold watch and his chain
[01:40.81] Then the county laid his daddy in the grave
[01:46.72] Yes, warden, the county laid
[01:50.97] His daddy in the grave
[01:54.27] I will pawn you his watch
[01:59.48] I will pawn you his chain
[02:03.14] I will pawn you my
[02:06.20] Diamond wedding ring
[02:09.78] I will wash all your clothes
[02:14.92] I will scrub all your floors
[02:18.72] If that will get my baby out of jail
[02:24.74] Yes, warden, if that will
[02:28.01] Get my baby out of jail
[02:32.87] Then I heard the warden say
[02:37.28] To the lady old and gray
[02:41.07] I'll go bring your
[02:43.08] Darling baby to your side
[02:47.88] Two iron gates swang wide apart
[02:51.95] She held her darling to her heart
[02:55.64] She kissed her baby boy and then she died
[03:01.24] But smiling, she kissed her baby boy
[03:05.85] And then she died
[03:10.26] I'm not in your town to stay
[03:14.13] Said a lady old and gray
[03:17.72] I'm just here to get my baby out of jail
[03:23.44] Yes, warden, I'm just here
[03:26.64] To get my baby out of jail..
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